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Rhys/1886, 94, `The next stone was one which Mr. Savage had lately discovered'.

Bruce/1968, 39, `in 1885, this stone was seen by the Rev. E.B. Savage (MS. notes at Manx Museum) built into the south wall of the Friary church...in 1893 [the stone was]...stated to have been removed to Castle Rushen...now in the Manx Museum'.

According to Rhys/Browne/1891, 38, the stone was `in the possession of Mr. Crellin of the Friary Farm'.

400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994)Ziegler/1994, 159--160, dates the stone to her period I, that is AD 400-500.

Language:

Goidelic (ogham)

Ling. Notes:

McManus/1991, 103, 110, 113.

Palaeography:

none

Legibility:

goodKermode/1907, 99, suggests some Ogham before the surviving text, but this has not been noted by anyone else. Kermode also stated that the last vowel is `scarcely visible; the upper end of the stone has been broken off at the third stroke of the character for `Q'.'

Cunamagli (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Rhys/1887, 63, `Cunamagli...a genitive of the second declension...[it] actually occurs in the somewhat later form Conomagli, in the life of a Breton saint...In modern Welch [sic] the name is reduced to Cynfael, and sometimes to Cynfal. Its corresponding late Irish forms are Conmal and Conmhal'. See also McManus/1991, 102, 106: 'prince of wolves'.

Kermode/1907, 99, `...we do not meet with the name elsewhere in lapidary inscriptions'.

Ziegler/1994, 159--160, states that the name is an o-stem in the genitive singular and that CUNA- gave Old Irish cú and that -MAGLI gave Old Irish mál.